Alien hotness

UPDATE - James Cameron wrote into Ain't It Cool saying, "Aside from two legs, two arms and a tail," the below artwork "doesn't have any features in common with our final designs." So there.

James Cameron's monumental sci-fi epic AVATAR is coming next year... no, wait! Not until May 2009? Gah! So I guess this really is an early glimpse of the flick's alien species (assuming it's actual concept art, as it was presented), which means we have a long time to wait for verification.